This week’s home screen post features Ben Waldie (Web site and Twitter) is the godfather of Mac automation. Ben has written books and published some excellent screencasts on the subject. Indeed, when Microsoft wanted to add Automator tools to the office suite, they went…
Continue reading →Mac at Work Update
Mac at Work continues to sell and I continue to receive e-mails from people all over the world enjoying the book and every single one of them makes my day. Thank you all for your love. Moreover, when Merlin Mann said the book was…
Continue reading →Safari Extenstions – Instapaper Beyond
Before Brett Terpstra became a rock star for his nvALT fork of Notational Velocity, Brett made an equally useful Safari extension for Instapaper power users, Instapaper Beyond. The plugin installs straight from the Apple Safari extensions site. Once installed, you can use keyboard shortcuts…
Continue reading →ABA TechShow Next Week
I can hardly wait to head to Chicago next week to participate in the American Bar Association’s annual TechShow. I’m putting the final touches on my presentation about my love affair with text and working on my equally fascinating presentation on collaboration tools for…
Continue reading →Macdrifter and the Post Science Era
The Macdrifter makes a point about us taking science for granted. If you haven’t already discovered it, Macdrifter is most certainly RSS worthy.
Continue reading →nvALT 2.0 Releases
… and there was much rejoicing by text nerds everywhere. Lots of new features Still speedy and useful Get it here.
Continue reading →NV Naming, Redux
It wasn’t so long ago that I wrote about my Notational Velocity naming system. Critical to my system was the use of a colon in the note names as my Frankenstein-like naming and tagging system. On our marathon Workflows interview, Merlin talked about a…
Continue reading →Writing a Book, the Master Outline
When I announced the new book, I promised I wouldn’t torture MacSparky.com readers with the tedious (and often) boring details of writing a book. I have, however, received several e-mails asking me to share some of the workflows so I will make occasional post…
Continue reading →Service Sunday – Send Books to iTunes
Here is a nice workflow from Chris Breen to send your ePub and PDF files straight to iTunes and sync them to your iPhone. I use it all the time.
Continue reading →OmniFocus Screencast, part 1
The OmniFocus Screencast (part 1 of 3) is live. The first episode is all about capturing with OmniFocus and is 20 minutes long. You can download it from the Mac Power Users Feed. The screencast is in Apple TV format. Enjoy.
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